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SUMMARY:Election Special - Discussion on the UK election\, Northern Ireland\, France\, and more!
DESCRIPTION:Election Special! \n The Moore Institute will host a snap event to discuss the UK election\, Northern Ireland\, France\, and more! \n With contributions from Jane Conroy\, Eoin Daly\, Niall Ó Dochartaigh\, and others. \n Thursday\, June 15th at 12 noon \n Moore Institute seminar room (G010) Hardiman Research Building \n  \nAll welcome! \n  \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/discussion-uk-election-northern-ireland-france/
LOCATION:Seminar Room GO10\, Ground Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel%20Carey":MAILTO:daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie
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SUMMARY:Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow
DESCRIPTION:Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow \nThis summer will see a series of free public history events around the County organised by NUI Galway\, GMIT\, local history societies and Galway County Council as part of its Decade of Commemoration strategy (2013-23). Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow will take place in Tuam\, Craughwell\, Clifden\, Portumna\, Skehana and Athenry throughout June and July. Each event is free and all are welcome. \nThe talks will feature an array of local and national historians discussing key events\, personalities and developments during the independence struggle in Galway. Topics to be examined include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis; the 1918 General Election; the War of Independence; Cumann na mBan and the Galway Volunteers. \nFamily history and memorabilia  \nThe series is also a chance for the public to offer their family reminiscences of the period and discuss the involvement of local communities and families. National experts will be available to offer advice or support to budding researchers and encourage people to bring along material from their own family’s involvement or any relevant letters\, memorabilia. \nTuam Library \nThe series kicks off in Tuam Library on Wednesday 14 June where the Old Tuam Society will host an event focusing on the 1918 General Election in North Galway. The event begins at 8 pm and features Dr Conor McNamara and Dr Martin O’Donoghue of NUI Galway. \nWhere and When: \n\nWednesday 14 June 8pm Tuam Library\n\n\nTuesday 20 June 8pm Craughwell Hall\n\n\nWednesday 28 June 8pm Clifden Station House Theatre\n\n\nWednesday 5 July 8pm Portumna Workhouse Centre\n\n\nWednesday 12 July 8pm Screene’s Lounge\, Skehana\n\n\nWednesday 19 July 8pm Athenry Community Centre\n\n  \nFurther details: Contact Conor McNamara\, NUI Galway: conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/galway-centenary-conversations-war-revolution-roadshow/
LOCATION:Various Locations\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Conor%20McNamara":MAILTO:conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie 
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T173000
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SUMMARY:'Researching Disasters' A talk by William M (Bill) Taylor
DESCRIPTION:The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Researching Disasters by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor \n \n Histories\, representations and ethics of catastrophe \nThis seminar draws on my research over a number of years\, on different projects and building histories that all seem to involve disasters of one kind or another: broken bridges\, collapsed buildings and drowned cities. My research methods have varied\, including approaches borrowed from the philosophy of science\, from architectural history and design theory\, and from the broad church of disaster studies.  The research ethos has been multi-\, inter- or trans-disciplinary as prevailing fashion across the humanities can describe it\, although experience suggests these terms are not what they’re cracked up to be. Discussion of research methods in the academy typically begins by assuming the ‘right’ correspondence of project aims and outcomes so that working between or across academic disciplines is more than likely to throw a spanner in the works\, to send a project haywire or make one’s compass go awry.  (These are all metaphors and outcomes from the illuminating history of technological failure.) \nSo\, how do we research things that go ‘wrong’? How do we study disaster and why? Homer-Dixon sees hope in the “upside of down” (2006)\, that studying catastrophe can teach us how we can “reinvigorate the economic\, political\, and social systems that sustain us.”  There may be more than optimism behind his theory.  With its emphasis on “innovation” as the linchpin between human suffering and social renewal there could be collusion with prevailing neoliberal thinking.  Nonetheless\, researching disasters—and teaching about them may bear consideration.  Educators and educationalists in particular may find an opportunity to “reinvigorate” forms of pastoral care and character-building hitherto relegated to the dustbin of Victorian era school history\, so that studying disaster can be a preventative to hubris and cultivator of personally-transformative and progressive values. \nWilliam M. Taylor is Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia where he teaches architectural design and history and theory of the built environment. Research interests include architecture\, social and political theory. A list of his publications can be found here: http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/person/Bill.Taylor
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/researching-disasters-talk-william-m-bill-taylor/
LOCATION:The Bridge\, Room 1001\, First Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Gerry%20MacRuairc":MAILTO:GERRY.MACRUAIRC@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T200000
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SUMMARY:Informationism and the Gig Economy: Labour's Digital Policy Fight for the 21st Century - A talk by Brian Dolber
DESCRIPTION:  \nBrian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University\, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States\, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal\, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the U.S. He is the author of Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017)\, and holds his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. \n  \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/informationism-gig-economy-labours-digital-policy-fight-21st-century-talk-brian-dolber/
LOCATION:City Library\, Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew%20%C3%93%20Baoill":MAILTO:andrew.obaoill@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
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SUMMARY:Prof. Federico Luisetti- Public Lecture on Biopower / Geopower
DESCRIPTION:Current perspectives on the Anthropocene are reformulating Michel Foucault’s biopolitical paradigm\, introducing a discourse on geopower and animistic states of nature that account for the political agency of unfamiliar webs of life and nonlife.​ \n  \nFederico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books and essays on philosophy\, literature\, visual studies\, the Avant-gardes\, and political thought. He is currently writing a monograph on the states of nature of the Anthropocene. \nhttp://romancestudies.unc.edu/faculty/federico-luisetti/
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/professor-federico-luisetti-public-lecture-biopower-geopower/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Paolo%20Bartoloni":MAILTO:paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170608T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170608T190000
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SUMMARY:NUI Galway Study Day: "Medicine and Mystery -The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction" - A Victorian Popular Fiction Association
DESCRIPTION:Organisers: Dr.s Anna Gasperini and Paul Raphael Rooney \nKeynote speakers: Ms Sarah Wise\, Author – Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind; Mr Alexander Black\, Department of Anatomy\, NUI Galway – The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway (this keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre) \nBackground \nThe internationally recognised Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) and the National University of Ireland\, Galway are the hosts of this interdisciplinary study day devoted to exploring representations of medicine and mystery in the Victorian era. The nineteenth century saw unprecedented developments in medical science\, which caused simultaneously wonder and anxiety in the wider public. Victorian popular authors such as Wilkie Collins\, Florence Marryat\, Charles Dickens\, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon enthusiastically explored the themes of medicine and surgical innovation in their work\, exploiting their sensational potential. At the same time\, the hopes and controversies generated by advancements in the medical field were often the subject of public debate via newspapers\, magazines\, and cartoons. Covering a wide range of topics going from class and gender\, to ethics\, to space\, to mental health\, and fin-de-siécle literature\, this Study Day aims to involve academics to a variety of disciplines in the exploration and discussion of the fascinating intermingle between literature and science in the Victorian era. \n  \nDuring the Study Day\, it will be possible to visit the exhibition Medicine and Mystery in C19th Galway”\, Curated by Anna Gasperini and Paul Rooney. \nRegister at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vpfa-study-day-medicine-mystery-the-dark-side-of-science-in-victorian-fiction-tickets-34605683531 \nFor those who may wish to attend the conference dinner at Mona Lisa Restaurant\, Galway\, please contact us at medicineandmystery19@gmail.com \n  \n08:45 – 9:15 Registration and Opening Remarks \n09: 15 Keynote 1 – Ms Sarah Wise\, Author – room G010 \n‘Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind \nChair: Anna Gasperini\, NUI Galway \n10:15 Tea break \n10:40 PARALLEL SESSION 1 \nGender and Class – room G010 \nPanel Chair: Eavan O’Dochartaigh\, NUI Galway \nSara Zadrozny\, University of Portsmouth – Medicine and Victorian notions of gender \nAbby Boucher\, Aston University\, Birmingham – Fashionable Illness: Consumerism\, Medicine\, and Class in the Silver Fork Novels \nRuth Doherty\, Trinity College Dublin – ‘But you and I may say the truth’: reproduction and infection in late nineteenth-century fiction \nSpaces and Bodies – room G011 \nPanel Chair: Paul Rooney\, NUI Galway \nLouise Benson James\, University of Bristol – Sick Rooms\, Death-Beds\, and Operating Theatres: Gothic Medical Spaces in the Fiction of Lucas Malet (1852-1931) \nNeil MacFarlane\, Independent Scholar – ‘Full of fire and animation’: sthenic corpulence in Dickens’s fiction  \n12:00 LUNCH \n13:30 Keynote 2 – Mr Alexander Black\, Department of Anatomy\, NUI Galway \nThe Early Years of Anatomy in Galway \nThe keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre \nChair: Anna Gasperini\, NUI Galway \n14:50 PARALLEL SESSION 2 \nMedicine and Ethics – room G010 \nPanel chair: Ciaran McDonough\, NUI Galway \nJennifer Jones\, University of Portsmouth – ‘“[M]erely a question of being the first time”’: Scientific Overreach and Middle-Class Masculinity \nDebbie Harrison\, Independent Scholar – Body of evidence: Forensic science\, psychology and the doctor-detective in “The Moonstone” and “Middlemarch” \nChristopher Pittard\, University of Portsmouth – Loveday Brooke\, Experimental Physiology\, and the Crimes of Animality \nFin-de-siècle – room G011  \nPanel Chair: Muireann O’Cinneide\, NUI Galway \nJames Machin\, Birkbeck University of London – “A slight lesion in the grey matter\, that is all”: fin-de-siécle medical practice in Arthur Machen’s weird fiction \nCaitlin R. Duffy\, Stony Brook University – Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula \nMathilde Giret\, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux 3) – Signs of the Plague in Dracula: a literary and medical investigation \n16:20 Tea break \n16:40 PARALLEL SESSION 3 \nMental Health – room G010  \nPanel Chair: Ruth Doherty\, Trinity College Dublin \nEmily Turner\, University of Sussex – New Moon journalism and patient powered publications \nMarjolein Platjiee\, University of Amsterdam – Was it really “in his nature to do it”? Re-examining the doctor’s Explanation of Little Father Time’s suicide in “Jude the Obscure”. \nCharlotte Whittingham\, Imperial College – The Angel in the Asylum \n18:00 Closing remarks \n19:00 Conference dinner at Mona Lisa Restaurant in Galway*
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/nui-galway-study-day-medicine-mystery-dark-side-science-victorian-fiction-victorian-popular-fiction-association/
LOCATION:Seminar Rooms G010 & G011\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Anna%20Gasparini":MAILTO:medicineandmystery19@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:'Teaching Austerity' A talk by William (Bill) Taylor
DESCRIPTION:The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on  Teaching austerity  by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor  \n \nAusterity is commonly associated with periods of restraint in government spending and the managed conservation of public resources during economic crises.  Government measures geared for austerity are typically contrast by policies seeking to stimulate economies\, increase consumption and gross domestic product.  Such was the aim of the Australian Government’s response to the GFC and its ‘Building the Education Revolution’ (BER) program.  This was an initiative that sought to stimulate the nation’s construction industry (a key indicator of economic prosperity) by massive investment in new school infrastructure.  This was capital spending that was also promised to ‘transform’ Australia’s education sector\, making it ‘better’ somehow and improve the lives (and competitiveness) of Australian pupils now and well into the future.  Cranking up the rhetoric on both sides of the austerity debate\, among those both for and against government interference in the economy and in what Margaret Thatcher famously wrote off as ‘society’ is a longstanding reactionary and moralising tendency that relates restraint to simpler times\, to ‘setting one’s house in order’ or to ‘living within one’s means’.  Many of us can remember hearing those lessons at home\, church and school. Austerity thus raises fundamental questions about the past and historical memory.  It is about who ‘we’ are or once were as a people and society\, about core beliefs and values. \nAs well as a brief foray into theory relating to the architecture of ‘enterprise culture’ (Mary Douglas)\, the seminar introduces a historical perspective\, recognising that ‘building austerity’ has appeared in multiple guises. Historically\, ‘austere’ practices are seen during times of conflict brought on by a range of crises\, including periods of spiritual\, demographic and geo-political turmoil (notably war).  This seminar outlines a parallel and at times intersecting history of practices and built environs designed for cultivating\, representing and governing parsimony of various kinds. The Quaker meeting house\, Ireland’s famine-era workhouses and the settings for ‘literary education’ (Ian Hunter) in Victorian era day schools are among a number of examples and opportunities to examine the architecture of public morality\, pedagogy and power. \nWilliam M. Taylor is Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia where he teaches architectural design and history and theory of the built environment. Research interests include architecture\, social and political theory. A list of his publications can be found here: http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/person/Bill.Taylor
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/teaching-austerity-talk-william-bill-taylor/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Gerry%20MacRuairc":MAILTO:GERRY.MACRUAIRC@nuigalway.ie
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SUMMARY:Sport & Exercise Monthly Seminar: "Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era" with Dr. Marcus Free
DESCRIPTION:Sport & Exercise Research Group \nMonthly Research Seminar\, Wednesday June 7\, 1pm\, Moore Institute \n  \n‘From there to here’: Narratives of Transition\, Migration and National Identity in Irish Media Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era \nDr. Marcus Free (Mary Immaculate College\, University of Limerick) \n  \n \n  \nIrish media representation of rugby union in the post-1995 professional era has become a vehicle for the rehearsal of fantasies and anxieties concerning national identity in the context of the Republic of Ireland as a neoliberal state.  Irish rugby’s reorganisation and competitive successes have facilitated comforting images and discourses of centralised management\, national cohesion and continuity while successive Irish governments’ neoliberal policies have focused on deregulation\, facilitating foreign direct investment and reduced social services spending.  Representations of advancements in rugby management and coaching intersected with pervasive managerialist discourses in Irish media and politics during and following the 2008 collapse of the Celtic Tiger boom\, but with a heavy stress on serving the ‘national interest’. Relatedly\, the targeted import of foreign players and coaches is often depicted as reflective of Irish rugby management’s successful negotiation of the neoliberal environment of contemporary European and world rugby. However\, the paper focuses on how recent concerns regarding the potential hindrance of ‘native’ player/coach development and the threat of economically driven out-migration evince anxieties concerning Irish rugby’s fragile economy and cultural identity that interconnect with broader concerns regarding Ireland’s enduring economic vulnerability following the 2008 crisis. \n  \nMarcus Free is a lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Mary Immaculate College\, University of Limerick. He has taught previously at the Universities of Sunderland and Wolverhampton. His current research interests are in the fields of sport as lived culture\, the cultural politics of the representation of sport in film and popular media\, the psychodynamics of fans’ emotional and cultural investment in sport and sport media\, and memories of media and cultural consumption in the construction of autobiographical narrative. He is co-author (with John Hughson and David Inglis) of The Uses of Sport: a Critical Study (Routledge\, 2005)\, and has published many international journal articles and chapters in scholarly collections on constructions of gender\, race and national identity in sport\, sport fandom and sport media. He also published research on Irish migration\, gender and national identity in contemporary film and television drama.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/sport-exercise-research-group-monthly-seminar-irish-media-representations-rugby-union-professional-era-dr-marcus-free/
LOCATION:Seminar Room GO10\, Ground Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Sean%20Crosson":MAILTO:sean.crosson@nuigalway.ie
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SUMMARY:Prof. Federico Luisetti- Master Class on 'Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Cosmic Crisis'
DESCRIPTION:Pier Paolo Pasolini has theorized the irrational\, oneiric\, elementary\, and barbaric elements of audiovisual communication. I will connect Pasolini’s reflection on cinema with his posthumous novel Petrolio\, and show how Petrolio’s “demoniac technique” addresses contemporary capitalism’s “cosmic crisis”. \n  \nFederico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books and essays on philosophy\, literature\, visual studies\, the Avant-gardes\, and political thought. He is currently writing a monograph on the states of nature of the Anthropocene. \nhttp://romancestudies.unc.edu/faculty/federico-luisetti/
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/federico-luisetti-master-class-pier-paolo-pasolinis-cosmic-crisis/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Paolo%20Bartoloni":MAILTO:paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170606T173000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Across Boundaries: New Approaches to Tomorrow's Challenges
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URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/discovery-across-boundaries-new-approaches-tomorrows-challenges/
LOCATION:Room IT125\, IT Building\, NUI Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Jim%20Duggan":MAILTO:jim.duggan@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T170000
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SUMMARY:Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an ‘Age of Globalization’:  The Euro-American World\, 1815-1914
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this two day international conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas\, whether based on either free or unfree labour\, between 1815 and 1914. In this period\, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended national boundaries\, profoundly affecting rural societies by transforming patterns of demand for agricultural commodities. In response to these global processes\, ‘progressive’ landowners\, serfowners and slaveholders throughout the Euro-American world endeavoured to rationalize their management of land and labour while embracing scientific farming techniques and technological innovations. The resulting drives for ‘improvement’ and better market integration typically exacerbated the fundamental economic\, political and social inequalities that prevailed in most agrarian regions. In all those regions\, the proprietors’ efforts were often resisted by the diverse range of unfree and free labourers who produced agricultural commodities for sale on the world market\, including slaves\, serfs\, sharecroppers\, tenants and peasant proprietors. Focusing on the above issues\, this conference features scholars of rural Europe and the Americas who will discuss the possibilities for comparative and transnational research within and between the different agrarian regions of the Euro-American world. \nThe keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University)\, author of the award-winning Empire of Cotton: A New Global History of Capitalism (2014). This lecture will be held in the Mechanics Institute\, Middle Street\, Galway at 8pm on Friday 2 June\, and is open to the public. \nTo register or for further information contact Joe Regan and Cathal Smith at agrarianworldconference@gmail.com \nProgramme \nDAY 1\, Friday 2 June \n10.00-10.35   Registration \n10.35-11.00    Opening Remarks \n11.00-12.30    Panel 1: Views of and from ‘Below’: Peasants\, Farmers and Slaves \nChair: Nicholas Canny \nWhat is a Peasant Movement For? The Struggle for Rural Representation in Eastern Europe before 1914 \nDaniel Brett (Open University) \nAgrarian Resistance to Modernization and Nation-Building in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: East Tennessee Unionist Farmers vs. Northern Terra di Lavoro’s ‘Legitimist’ Peasants in 1861 \nEnrico Dal Lago (National University of Ireland\, Galway) \n“The General Strike” \nJames Oakes (City University of New York) \n12.30-1.30 Lunch \n1.30-3.00 Panel 2: Agriculture\, Radicalism and Politics \nChair: Caitriona Clear \n‘Progress’ and ‘Civilisation’: The Idea of Land and the Tensions of Modernity in the Transatlantic Discourse of the Irish Land League\, 1879-86 \nAndrew Phemister (University of Edinburgh) \nMichael Davitt’s Second Tour of the Scottish Highlands and Land Reform in Scotland and Ireland \nBrian Casey (Independent Scholar) \nManoeuvring Between Nation and Empire: Agrarian Protest and Political Mobilisation in Finland\, 1880-1917 \nSami Suodenjoki (University of Helsinki) \n3.00-3.30 Coffee Break \n3.30-5.00 Panel 3: Farmers Confronting Modernization \nChair: Aidan Kane \nSmall Farmers Facing the Challenge of Expanding Slave-Based Sugar Plantations: Campinas- \nBrazil\, Nineteenth-Century \nLaura Fraccaro (University of Campinas) \nNegotiating Need and Reform in a Transatlantic World: Nineteenth-Century Farmers and \nAgricultural Scientists in Maine and Westphalia \nJustus Hillebrand (University of Maine) \nRural Labourers and the ‘Ranch War’ in County Cork: From Canada to Castlelyons \nJohn O’Donovan (University College Cork) \n6.00 Conference Dinner \n8.00 Keynote Lecture\, Mechanics Institute\, Middle Street\, Galway \nThe Transformation of the Global Countryside: The Nineteenth Century \nSven Beckert (Harvard University) \nDAY 2\, Saturday 3 June \n10.00-11.30 Panel 4: Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Reform in Regional and National Perspective \nChair: Enrico Dal Lago \nThe Agrarian Thought of William Sharman Crawford \nPeter Gray (Queen’s University\, Belfast) \nAgricultural Education in Hungary: A Response to the Challenges of the ‘Age of Globalization’ \nZsuzanna Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University\, Budapest) \nKnowledge Production and Institution Building: The Agrarian Response to the First Wave of Globalisation \nPeter Moser (Archives of Rural History\, Bern) \n11.30-11.45 Coffee Break \n11.45-1.00 Panel 5: Debates on Landownership and Use in a Globalizing World \nChair: Conor McNamara \nRural Co-operation and a Transnational Solution to the Problem of Rural Life\, 1889-1932 \nPatrick Doyle (University of Manchester) \nLand Privatization and Export-Led Modernization in Chiapas\, Mexico: Reform\, Resistance and Revolution\, 1876-1911 \nSarah Washbrook (University College London) \n1.00-2.00 Lunch \n2.00-3.15 Panel 6: The Euro-American Agrarian World and Beyond: Global Connections \nChair: Kevin O’Sullivan \nFrom European Roots to Australian Wine: A Study of Foreign Influences on the British Wine Industry in Australia \nChelsea Davis (The George Washington University) \nInventing Colonial Agronomy: The Buitenzorg Laboratories and the Transition from the Western Plantation Model to the Eastern Model of Scientific Cash Crop Improvement\, 1880s-1914 \nFlorian Wagner (University of Erfurt) \n3.15-3.30 Coffee Break \n3.30-4.00 Closing Remarks \nThe conference organisers would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Moore Institute\, the Discipline of History\, and the Research Office\, all at NUI Galway\, as well as the British Agricultural History Society. \nFor queries please contact Dr. Joe Regan and Dr. Cathal Smith at \nagrarianworldconference@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/agrarian-reform-resistance-age-globalization-euro-american-world-1815-1914/
LOCATION:Seminar Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Cathal%20Smith":MAILTO:agrarianworldconference@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T173000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: 'Transnational encounters between Irish\, Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities\, 1850s to 1900s: the beginnings of a project' by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow\, Professor Catherine Manathunga
DESCRIPTION:Professor Catherine Manathunga\, Victoria University\, Melbourne and Moore Institute Fellow \nIrish universities such as Trinity College Dublin\, the three Queen’s Colleges of Cork\, Galway and Belfast and the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin served as key models for the development of early Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities.  They also contributed many academics to antipodean universities and featured prominently in the transnational flows of people and academic ideas that have always characterised university life around the globe. This seminar outlines the beginnings of a research project on transnational links between Irish and Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand universities\, focusing on the period from the 1850s to the 1900s.  While existing research has been completed on connections between universities in the ‘British world’ (eg. Pietsch\, 2013) with a focus on Protestant Anglo-Irish history\, less attention has been paid to the history of the role of Irish universities and Irish academics in antipodean universities. This project addresses this gap and draws upon theories about transnationalism and the role of universities and academics as non-state actors contributing to global flows of people\, ideas and knowledge.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/seminar-transnational-encounters-irish-australian-aotearoa-new-zealand-universities-1850s-1900s-beginnings-project-moore-institute-visiting-fellow-professor-catherine/
LOCATION:Room 1001\, the Bridge\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Chloe%20Graham":MAILTO:chloe.graham@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170529T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170529T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170523T072303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170526T102601Z
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SUMMARY:'Was Hitler an Arab?: Islam and the Enlightenment in Contemporary German Discourse' by MI Visiting Fellow\, Dr. Joseph Twist
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Twist (Galway/Limerick) – Joseph is interested in the intersection of philosophy\, religion and literature. His current research focuses on the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of Zafer Şenocak\, SAID\, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani (all contemporary German authors of varying Muslim backgrounds). He is particularly interested in the non-identitarian spirituality of their fiction and its transnational contexts.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/hitler-arab-islam-enlightenment-contemporary-german-discourse-mi-visiting-fellow-dr-joseph-twist/
LOCATION:Seminar Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Hans-Walter%20Schmidt%20Hannisa":MAILTO:h.schmidthannisa@nuigalway.ie
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170530
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170524T074343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T132131Z
UID:4366-1496016000-1496102399@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:Huston School of Film & Digital Media\, NUI Galway  PhD Research Symposium 2017
DESCRIPTION:The annual PhD research day of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media\, NUI Galway will be held on Monday May 29th. \nHuston currently has ten PhD students engaged in a variety of pioneering research projects\, both traditional and practice-based. These include projects examining punk cinema\, digital comics\, what New Media can learn from film\, video and altermodernity\, comedy in contemporary art practice\, awe and the sublime in cinema\, augmented reality\, media practices and Irish identity in the United Kingdom\, and transnational science-fiction. Huston’s research day will also include a screening of the essay film Dúshlán Lurgan (The Lurgan Challengem)\, the final project of Huston practice-based PhD candidate Uinsionn Mac Dubhghaill. Dúshlán Lurgan  examines the production of Irish-language versions of popular music videos in English at Coláiste Lurgan\, an Irish summer college in Connemara. The guest speaker for this year’s research day is Dr. Roddy Flynn (Dublin City University) who will be presenting on the topic of “Broken beyond repair? Irish Broadcasting policy in the 21st century”. Dr Flynn is Chair of the MA in Film and Television at the School of Communications\, Dublin City University. He writes and researches extensively on film and broadcasting policy in Ireland and Europe and is author (with John Horgan) of Irish Media History to be published by Four Courts Press in Autumn 2017. \nThe Huston School of Film & Digital Media is the leading centre for research and teaching in film and digital media in the West of Ireland. The school offers teaching and research programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels (up to PhD)\, including pioneering MA degrees in Film Studies: Theory and Practice\, Film Production and Direction\, Digital Media\, Arts Policy and Practice\, Public Advocacy and Activism\, and Film and Theatre. \nSamples of film work and ongoing research in Huston is also available at https://www.youtube.com/user/hustonfilmschool \nRoddy Flynn bio and abstract \nBio: Dr Roddy Flynn is Chair of the MA in Film and Television at the School of Communications. Dublin City University. He writes and researches extensively on film and broadcasting policy in Ireland and Europe and is author (with John Horgan) of “Irish Media History” to be published by Four Courts Press in Autumn 2017. \nAbstract: Irish broadcasting has experienced a succession of “perfect storms” since the beginning of this century. An increasingly crowded marketplace has meant intensive competition for audiences and advertising revenue: Irish advertisers could place their commercials on five channels in 2000 but in 2017 there are 48\, most of which are based overseas. There is also increasing competition from non-linear television: having launched in 2012\, Netflix is available in one in five Irish homes and in late 2016 was joined by Amazon Prime. Though radio and television have retained audiences in absolute terms (indeed the Irish as a while watch more daily television in 2017 than they did in 2007)\, they face increasing competition for attention from other screen media: by 2015\, media accessed online were not merely on a par with with television as a source of news for Irish audiences but far exceeded the influence of print and radio as media. The ongoing impact of the post-2008 crash has seen broadcast revenues collapse while appeals to the state for greater public funding have largely fallen on deaf ears (due in part to European Commission restrictions on state aid to public broadcasters). This presentation seeks to delineate the various political\, economic\, social and technical influences on the current Irish broadcasting landscape\, to identify their impact and to prognosticate as to the likely future shape of broadcasting in Ireland.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/huston-school-film-digital-media-nui-galway-phd-research-symposium-2017/
LOCATION:Huston School of Film & Digital Media\, NUI Galway
ORGANIZER;CN="Tina%20Earls":MAILTO:tina.earls@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170518T071502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T074504Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch:  “Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective” (Palgrave 2017) by Anne O’Connor
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the book launch of\n \n“Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective” (Palgrave 2017)  \nby Anne O’Connor\, School of Languages\, Literatures & Cultures\n \nThe book will be launched by Prof. Michael Cronin (DCU) \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/book-launch-translation-language-nineteenth-century-ireland-european-perspective-palgrave-2017-anne-oconnor/
LOCATION:Seminar Room G010\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr.%20Alice%20Colombo":MAILTO:alice.colombo@nuigalway.ie 
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170519T132317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T132317Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture:  ‘Evidence-based humanitarian work and research ethics’ by Dr Dónal O'Mathúna (DCU)
DESCRIPTION:UNESCO Bioethics Ireland\, COBRA in conjunction with the NUI Galway Research Ethics Committee\, NUIG \nHumanitarian work and disaster responses are increasingly encouraged to be evidence-based. For this and other reasons\, more research and other evidence-generation activities are being conducted in disaster and humanitarian settings. This has led to attention to the ethical issues in such research\, and how they should be addressed. Questions have been raised about whether current research ethics governance is suitable for such research. Dr Dónal O’Mathúna will discuss these trends and report on initiatives he is involved with that attempt to facilitate appropriate research ethics engagement in disaster and humanitarian research. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nDónal O’Mathúna\, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Ethics\, Decision-Making & Evidence\, School of Nursing and Human Sciences\, Dublin City University. \nHe is the Director of the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Ethics\, Chair of the Disaster Bioethics COST Action and Convenor for Cochrane Ireland \nThe public lecture and reception are kindly funded and supported by the NUI Galway Research Office (website). \nAttendance is free and no registration is required. However\, to gauge numbers\, please contact feeney.oli@gmail.com with your interest in attending – many thanks!
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/public-lecture-evidence-based-humanitarian-work-research-ethics-dr-donal-omathuna-dcu/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Oliver%20Feeney":MAILTO:feeney.oli@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170519T131859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T131859Z
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SUMMARY:UNESCO Bioethics Ireland\, COBRA: Roundtable workshop on exchanging information on participants’ bioethical-related work & on the needs of the bioethics community in Ireland.
DESCRIPTION:Room AM205\, Arts Millennium Building\, NUI Galway  \n\n14.00-15.30: Outline of roundtable workshop\n\n\n\n\nMaureen O’Sullivan (School of Law) ‘Patents\, morality\, biotech inventions and a role for participatory democracy’ – short presentation followed by discussion\nSu-Ming Khoo (School of Political Science and Sociology) ‘Bioethics\, public ethics and collective capabilities’\nOliver Feeney (UNESCO Bioethics Ireland\, COBRA) ‘Electronic health records and vulnerable migrants in Europe: the need for developing an ELSI guided response’ – short presentation followed by discussion\nGeneral discussion on other topics raised and projects highlighted from participants\, discussion of the needs of the bioethical community in Ireland (education\, research\, public engagement) and future plans of UNESCO Bioethics Ireland.\n\n\n\n15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee/biscuits brought to room while discussion continues.\n16.00-16.50: Unesco Bioethics Ireland Steering Committee meeting (SC members plus participants from roundtable workshop welcome)\n\nIf you wish to attend\, please let me know [contact feeney.oli@gmail.com] \n  \nAbout UNESCO Bioethics Ireland \n  \nIn 2016\, the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics approved the establishment of its Irish Unit (‘UNESCO Bioethics Ireland’). The core aim of UNESCO Bioethics Ireland is to promote bioethics education\, research and public engagement on key bioethical issues in the Irish context. For further information\, please visit: unescobioethicsireland.eu
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/unesco-bioethics-ireland-cobra-roundtable-workshop-exchanging-information-participants-bioethical-related-work-needs-bioethics-community-ireland/
LOCATION:AM205
ORGANIZER;CN="Oliver%20Feeney":MAILTO:feeney.oli@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170504T093633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170517T075000Z
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SUMMARY:World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century\n‘Capitalism-in-Crisis and Narrating the World in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled’  \nDr Treasa De Loughry (Maynooth University)  \n  \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/world-literature-short-story-21st-century/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Sorcha%20Gunne":MAILTO:SORCHA.GUNNE@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170518T070804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T120321Z
UID:4311-1495699200-1495818000@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:Conference: ‘Translation Meets Book History: Intersections 1700-1900’
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis two-day international conference aims at exploring and further promoting the complementarity between translation and book history with a particular focus on the international publishing panorama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. \n\nKeynote Speaker: Norbert Bachleitner (Universität Wien) \nProvisional programme and other information available on the conference website https://intersections2017.wordpress.com/ \n  \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/conference-translation-meets-book-history-intersections-1700-1900/
LOCATION:Seminar Rooms G010 & G011\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr.%20Alice%20Colombo":MAILTO:alice.colombo@nuigalway.ie 
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170504T084531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T084531Z
UID:4250-1495627200-1495645200@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:Feminist Storytelling Working Group
DESCRIPTION:PI: Dr Miriam Haughton\, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance \nSupported by: School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme\, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance\, and Gender ARC. \nRegistration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place\, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 5pm Thursday 18 May. Research topics under discussion are accessible online or will be emailed in advance. \nThis is a half-day workshop intended to reflect on significant moments of feminism and gender equality as they are represented or addressed via diverse modes of storytelling in an interdisciplinary forum. Considering feminism and gender in both Irish and international contexts\, this workshops draws from institutional and international expertise to review points of urgency and change in women’s lives from perspectives of history\, law\, culture\, politics\, and the arts. The aim of the workshop is to situate the trajectory and legacy of critical thinking on feminist storytelling and narratives in modern contexts. Chairs will introduce topics\, which are then open to the floor for discussion\, analysis and debate. \nGuiding Themes: Feminist Storytelling; Gender\, Justice and Equality; Women and Health; Women and Nation; ‘Nasty Women’ \n  \nSchedule \n12pm: Light lunch \n12.15–12.30 Dr Miriam Haughton\, Workshop Introduction and Research Aims (DTP) \n12.30-12.45 Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan\, Project Planning: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing\, 1550-1700 (English) \n 12.45–1.30 Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley\, Desertion and Divorce (History) \n1.30–1.45: Break \n 1:45–2.30 Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley\, Feminist Judgments Project (Law) \n2.30-3.15: Professor Niamh Reilly: Women\, Nation\, Sovereignty: Socio-Political Perspectives (Sociology and Politics) \n3.15-3.30: Break \n3.30-4.15: Mary McGill\, Feminism and the Selfie in Contemporary Culture (Hardiman PhD Scholar\, Languages\, Literatures\, and Cultures) \n4.15-5.00: Professor Elaine Aston\, Feminism and Storytelling in Theatre and Performance: Reflections\, Methodologies and Transnational Perspectives (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) \n  \nRecommended Reading \nAston\, E. (2016) ‘Agitating for Change: Theatre and a Feminist ‘Network of Resistance’\,’ Theatre Research International\, 41:1\, pp. 5-20Bailey\, J.\, Steeves\, V.\, Burkell\, J. & Regan\, P. (2013) ‘Negotiating With Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites: From “Bicycle Face to Facebook’\, Journal of Communication Inquiry\, 20(10)\, pp.1-22 \nhttp://www.equalityproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/C2-Negotiating-with-Gender-Stereotypes-on-Social-Networking-Sites.pdf \nBuckley\, SA. (forthcoming\, 2018) ‘Desertion and ‘divorce Irish style’ (1937-1997)’ in Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany\, ed. Salvador Ryan \nJones\, J. (2016) ‘Those taking selfies with Hillary Clinton aren’t narcissists – but our best hope’\, Guardian\, Monday\, September 26th\, 2016. \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/taking-selfies-hillary-clinton-not-narcissists \nFeminist Judgments Project: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/fjp/about/index.html \nNorthern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project: http://www.feministjudging.ie \nThe Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing\, 1550-1700: www.recirc.nuigalway.ie \nYuval-Davis\, Nira “Gender and Nation”\, Ethnic & Racial Studies. Oct93\, Vol. 16 Issue 4\, p 621. 12p. \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/feminist-storytelling-working-group/
LOCATION:Rehearsal Room 1\, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance\, NUI Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Miriam%20Haughton":MAILTO:miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170521
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170424T091151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T091413Z
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SUMMARY:EDEN: '2017: Pasts\, Presents and Futures'
DESCRIPTION:1st EDEN All Island Interdisciplinary Conference \nHosted by English and Drama Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway \n‘2017: Pasts\, Presents\, and Futures’ at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance \nWe’re also delighted to announce that registration for the conference is now OPEN! Click here to head over to register via Eventbrite: registration for speakers and auditors is completely free. We’ve also given you the option to register for the full conference\, for Friday only\, or for Saturday only. \nFor more information on the programme and the full event schedule\, please see our website at: https://edenconf.wordpress.com/ \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/eden-2017-pasts-presents-futures/
LOCATION:O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance\, NUI Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="EDEN":MAILTO:eden.nuigalway@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170505T140401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T140401Z
UID:4273-1495123200-1495126800@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:'A Product of the Slums': The Degenerate Body in Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer-  Talk by Laura Lovejoy
DESCRIPTION:“Concepts of degeneration came to constitute one of the foremost expressions of state power as Ireland transitioned to a fully independent state with its own constitution between 1922 and 1937. During the Free State period\, the framework of degeneration was profoundly manifest in the state’s framing and treatment of issues of moral and social hygiene\, and a social preoccupation with the degeneration of Irish culture came to constitute a key aspect of the specific form biopower took in the Irish postcolonial state. In particular\, discourses emerged which centred on the human body as a focal point of national degeneration. This talk considers how Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer (1925)\, a thriller set in the slums of post-revolutionary Dublin\, depicts the Irish body in decline. Situating O’Flaherty’s portrayals of the pathological male and female body in the context of Free State fears of moral\, cultural\, and biological degeneracy\, the talk considers how O’Flaherty’s naturalistic reflection of degenerationist cultural anxieties may distinguish him from modernist contemporaries and successors.” \nAll Welcome!
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/product-slums-degenerate-body-liam-oflahertys-informer-talk-laura-lovejoy/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Lionel%20Pilkington":MAILTO:lionel.pilkington@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170504T085158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T110647Z
UID:4256-1495112400-1495292400@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:Bishop Berkeley’s Querist in Context Conference
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 18 \n13:00   Registration \n13:30   Opening of the Conference. \n13:45   Bertil Belfrage (Lund University)\, ‘Berkeley’s Social Philosophy’ \n14:30   Adam Grzelinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)\, ‘The Querist in the light of Berkeley’s early works’ \n15:15   Coffee break \n16:00   Daniel Flage (James Madison University)\, “The Querist:  Social Engineering and Natural Law” \n17:00   Reception \n  \nFriday May 19 \n09:00   George Caffentzis (University of Southern Maine)\, “Exciting the Industry of Mankind: Synopsis and Response to Critics” \n09:45   Eoin Magennis (Ulster University)\, “Bishop Berkeley\, The Querist and Patriot Politics in 1730 Ireland” \n  \n10:30   Coffee break \n10:45   Edward McPhail (Dickinson College) and Salim Rashid (Universiti Utara Malaysia)\, “Berkeley’s Rules for Sound Banking” \n11:30   Lunch \n14:00   Patrick Kelly (TCD)\, “Is there more to Berkeley’s decision to publish the emasculated version of The Querist in 1750 than his prefatory Advertisement implies?” \n14:45   Coffee break \n15:00   Marta Szymanska-Lewoszewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University)\, “The Influence of The Querist on Economic Theory in Poland” \n16:00   International Berkeley Society Meeting \n17:00   Reception \n  \nSaturday May 20 \n09:00   David Hilbert (University of Illinois Chicago)\, “Money\, power\, vision and touch: with some remarks on the benevolence of both God and national banks” \n09:45   Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College)\, “Berkeley and Mandeville on Theodicy and Agency” \n10:30   Coffee break \n10:45   Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College)\, “From the Querist to Nudge: A Critical Analysis of Forms of Paternalism” \n11:30   Lunch \n14:00   Kenneth Pearce (TCD)\, “Berkeley’s Immaterialist Monetary Policy” \n14:45   Coffee break \n15:00   Dik Van Iten (Iowa State University)\, “The Ethical Foundations of The Querist”
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/bishop-berkeleys-querist-context-confrence/
LOCATION:Seminar Room GO10\, Ground Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel%20Carey":MAILTO:daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170504T093141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T091022Z
UID:4258-1495112400-1495117800@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:#50isEnough:  Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation - Talk by Daniel Sokatch
DESCRIPTION:#50isEnough:  Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation \nThe Occupation is now 50 years old and the current political leadership in Israel seems intent on silencing Israelis who want to see it end. Indeed\, the debate over the Occupation – and the damage it is doing to both Palestinian society and Israeli democracy – has been removed from the center of public discourse in Israel.  But no problem that is swept under the rug will ever be solved\, and Israeli activists are pushing back. We will examine the roots of the conflict and of the Occupation\, discuss the impact it has had on both Palestinians and Israelis\, and survey some of the strategies Israeli civil society organizations are implementing to challenge the status quo during these challenging times. \n  \n \nDaniel J. Sokatch is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund (NIF)\, the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis. Before joining NIF\, Sokatch served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco\, the Peninsula\, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Prior to his tenure at Federation\, he served as the founding Executive Director of the California-based Progressive Jewish Alliance (now known as Bend the Arc). \nIn recognition of his leadership\, Sokatch has been named to the Forward newspaper’s “Forward 50\,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers\, in 2002\, 2005 and 2008 and 2010.Daniel has an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University\, a JD from Boston College Law School\, and a BA from Brandeis University. He is married with two daughters and resides in San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/50isenough-israeli-civil-society-confronts-occupation-talk-daniel-sokatch/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Niall%20%C3%93%20Dochartaigh":MAILTO:Niall.ODochartaigh@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170505T094906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T131059Z
UID:4267-1495036800-1495040400@mooreinstitute.ie
SUMMARY:Modern Languages and the Making of 'Citizens of the World': Recapturing the Values of a Discipline at Odds with Current Political and Educational Contexts' Talk by Marion Krauthaker
DESCRIPTION:By Dr. Marion Krauthaker \n \nIn this seminar\, Marion will present the early findings of an ongoing pedagogical research project on Modern Foreign Languages. Looking back at the roots of MFL teaching in the UK has enabled me to retrace its original mission and to better pinpoint the disconnections between its founding values\, its current perception and the Western educational context. In the UK\, the discipline has already been and continues to be greatly affected by recent market-driven and neo-liberal educational policies and I suggest that one of the responses to this worrying situation is to recapture and raise awareness on the mission of the discipline. Looking at MFL curricula in the UK\, MFL stands out through its crucial contribution to the education of future citizens; in addition to linguistic skills\, MFL does indeed provide students with a variety of skills that may not be on the current educational neoliberal agenda\, but are nevertheless fundamental to the development of rounded and reflective citizens and professionals. I will present the key elements that seem to make MFL the ideal locus where students develop an awareness on questions of diversity\, equality and inclusion and are equipped with essential critical tools to become ‘citizens of the world’. The presentation will be followed by some time for a collective discussion to develop some of the key points and compare the findings with the Irish context. \nAll welcome!
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/modern-languages-making-citizens-world-recapturing-values-discipline-odds-current-political-educational-contexts-talk-marion-krauthaker/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Chloe%20Graham":MAILTO:chloe.graham@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170509T135214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T135309Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching\, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts- A joint talk by Dr Emer O’Toole and Dr Anna Pilz
DESCRIPTION:Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching\, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts \nA joint talk by Moore Visiting Fellows: Dr Emer O’Toole (Concordia) and Dr Anna Pilz (UCC)\, chaired by Dr Miriam Haughton\, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama\, Theatre and Performance \n  \nDr Anna Pilz lectures on Irish and English literature in the School of English at University College Cork. In May 2017\, she is Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway to consult the Abbey Digital Theatre Archive. Her research interests include the Irish Literary Revival\, Irish literary theatre history (particularly the Abbey Theatre)\, and women’s writing. She is co-editor of a volume of essays on Irish Women’s Writing\, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester University Press 2016). She has published articles and book chapters on Irish playwright Lady Gregory and is currently completing two monograph projects\, including Lady Gregory’s Drama: The Playwright and Her Audiences. \n  \nDr Emer O’Toole is Assistant Professor of Irish Performance Studies at Concordia University\, Montréal. She is a proud graduate of NUI Galway\, with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy. Her doctorate (Royal Holloway University of London\, 2012) examined the ethics of intercultural theatre\, while her current research addresses the relationship between activism and theatre art in Ireland. She is author of the book Girls Will Be Girls (2015)\, which makes Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity accessible to a non-academic audience\, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Ethical Exchanges\, which unpacks the ethical dimensions of the theatrical practices of translation\, adaptation and dramaturgy. Her scholarly work appears in international publications including Target; the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance; Literature\, Interpretation\, Theory (LIT); and alt.theatre. She is also a newspaper columnist\, who regularly contributes to The Guardian and The Irish Times.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/finding-lady-gregory-teaching-research-performance-practice-global-contexts-joint-talk-dr-emer-otoole-dr-anna-pilz/
LOCATION:Seminar Room GO10\, Ground Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Miriam%20Haughton":MAILTO:miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie
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SUMMARY:Conference -Other Codes/Cóid Eile - Digital Literatures in Context
DESCRIPTION:The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will host the international conference Other Codes / Cóid Eile –  Digital Literatures in Context.  The event focuses on the various contexts of the production\, dissemination and reception of digital literature in its different forms\, as well as the cultural\, national\, geographical and institutional settings within which digital literary practice takes place. Invited speakers include Sandy Baldwin from the Rochester Institute of Technology (US)\, María Mencía from Kingston University\, London (UK)\, Jessica Pressman from San Diego State University (US)\, and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen (Norway). The event is the first Galway Digital Cultures Initiative conference and is funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. \n  \nContact: anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie \nWeb: https://othercodes.wordpress.com” \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/conference-codescoid-eile-digital-literatures-context/
LOCATION:Seminar Room GO10\, Ground Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170509T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170509T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170410T101313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170410T101313Z
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SUMMARY:MA Students Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Students in MA Medieval Studies will be presenting their dissertation projects for comment and feedback in Room 1001 “The Bridge” on Tuesday\, May 9th 10-12pm. \nAll welcome!
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/ma-students-presentations/
LOCATION:The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Kimberly%20LoPrete":MAILTO:kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170509T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170509T134316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T134738Z
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SUMMARY:“Ireland\, America and Empire in the Age of Jefferson”
DESCRIPTION:Programme \n  \nTuesday\, May 8\, 2017 \n10:00 am \nSession I \nNicholas Canny: “Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy\, 1603-1815” \nAlison Games: “Massacres\, Memories and Empire: The Amboyna Incident’s Long History” \n  \n10:45 am \nSession II \nJane Ohlmeyer: “Ireland and the Wider World in the Early Modern Period” \nMax Edelson: “Mapping Empire: Geographic Information and the British Imperial State in the Eighteenth Century” \n  \n1:45 pm \nSession III: \nDaniel Carey: “The Scottish Englightenment and the Problems of Slavery: To the New World and Back in the Eighteenth Century” \nRobert Ingram: “The Very Long Reformation” \n  \nWednesday\, May 9\, 2017 \n9:00 am \nSession IV \nRachel Banke: “Satire and Substance: Lord Bute in the Revolutionary Imagination” \nHarry Dickinson: “The Irreconcilable Dispute on Sovereignty During the American Revolution”
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/ireland-america-empire-age-jefferson/
LOCATION:Seminar Room G010
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha%20Shaughnessy":MAILTO:martha.shaughnessy@universityofgalway.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170505T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234643
CREATED:20170411T120501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T131043Z
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SUMMARY:1917: Centenary Reflections-  Weekend Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nOrganised by Heritage/Library Services\, Roscommon Co. Council; Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society;  \nand the Moore Institute\, National University of Ireland\, Galway \n  \n \nFRIDAY NIGHT: Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel \nPANEL 1  \n8.00: NORTH ROSCOMMON BEGINS: THE 1917 BY-ELECTION  \nRegina Donlon (Maynooth University): ‘Hurrah for Plunkett’: The 1917 North Roscommon by-election in context \nMartin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway): ‘A large percentage of the people of Ireland seem to have lost their bearings’: the AOH and Irish Party decline\, 1916-20 \nHonor Ó Brolcháin (Author): Proclamation\, election\, abstention: the Roscommon line in the snow \n  \nSATURDAY\, ALL DAY: The Abbey Hotel \nPANEL 2  \n9.30: WOMEN\, FAMILIES & POPULAR POLITICS  \nFionnuala Walsh (Trinity College Dublin): Women and everyday life in Ireland in 1917. \nMary McAuliffe (University College Dublin): Beyond 1916; revolutionary women\, politics and propaganda\, 1917-1918 \nJackie Uí Chionna (NUI Galway): ‘Cherishing all of the children of the nation equally?’ The NSPCC and child welfare in Galway\, 1916-1923 \n  \nPANEL 3  \n11.20: 1917: LOCAL\, NATIONAL\, AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES  \nPadraig Yeates (SIPTU): \nWilliam Partridge\, the Workers’ Republic\, and 1916: the Ballaghaderreen connection \nJohn Cunningham (NUI Galway): Ireland and the Australian conscription crisis of 1916-17 \nJames Curry (NUI Galway): Jim Larkin’s 1917 American Irish Worker \nPauline Scott (NUI Galway): ‘Dividing loyalties’: changing attitudes to the Parliamentary Party and Sinn Féin on the former Pollok estate in Glinsk-Creggs\, 1916-19 \n1.00 LUNCH  \n 2.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE Marie Coleman (Queen’s University\, Belfast): 1917: The realignment of Irish nationalist politics \n  \n3.15: NUI GALWAY\, ARCHIVAL PROJECT Conor McNamara (NUI Galway)Community\, Conflict\, and Memory \n3.30: PANEL DISCUSSION: 1917 AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW IRELAND  \nChair: Micheál Ó Fathartaigh (Dublin Business School) \nPanellists: John Borgonovo (UCC); Margaret Ward (QUB); Luke Gibbons (Maynooth University).
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/1917-centenary-reflections-weekend-conference/
LOCATION:Gleason’s Townhouse Hotel & The Abbey Hotel\, Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Conor%20McNamara":MAILTO:conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie 
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